Tuesday, January 26, 2010

From their hard-charging patriarch Benjamin (a former member of the Irgun, a militant Zionist group) on down, the Emanuels are poised to become one of the great families in American life: a sprawling but tight-knit group of overachievers - the Jewish Kennedys.

"Oh come on, this is an exaggerations," said Benjamin Emanuel, reached at his suburban Chicago home on New Year's Eve. "We are better than the Kennedys."